The little that I have shared with individuals that rely on walking canes are:

-Double supported grips for bayonet methods (thrusts)-Checks/push-offs with center of cane-Rowing strokes using both ends.

Additionally, I encouraged them to transfer grip to bottom in order to strike with the curved end for more weighted impact.

The obvious reason for using the cane is lack of balance and weakness due to injuries or age. Therefore, I relied on a few things like teaching range to maximize effectiveness of strikes and built up their repetitions.

Quite often these individuals already had a great deal of tenacity so it took little encouragement.

I have never liked the curved type of handle after haveing my hand slip off one in bad weather. Ok maybe I wasn't holding on tight enough but its a real bummer when you go to place your hand on it and bear weight and your hand just slides around that curve and you fall on your face. I have never had that happen with a "T" or "L" top/grip

Hi all. I have been playing a little bit with my cane, using it in a two handed fashion as an uppercut enhancer, one hand near the crook and the other hand a little farther than halfway down the length of the cane and following that up with bayonet type thrusts. I think that these two moves would work well for someone who may have balance problems, because the arms don’t move to far out from the body.

Even now, I can scarcely believe some of the absurdities I experienced as a screener. Not long before I quit, for example, a teenage girl was flying to Australia for a field hockey tournament. She was stopped at my checkpoint and told that she could not carry her stick onto the aircraft.

I believe in prudent security, but the field hockey stick presented no realistic threat to passengers or crew. It was too late for the stick to be checked, so the girl had to send it Federal Express to Australia and hope for the best.

Ironically, less than an hour later, a rather large man with a cane passed through my checkpoint without a problem. The cane had a heavy brass grip, I remember, because I had to hand it back to the man after he passed through the metal detector.

I'm not saying that the TSA should have confiscated the man's cane; it shouldn't have. What I am saying is that the TSA's policies regarding what is acceptable to carry onto an airplane mock security rather than enhance it.

By Mike Gisick
SUN Staff Writer
A self-employed Española artist is under arrest for the senseless stabbing of a man who was asleep on a recliner after smoking crack cocaine all night.
David Lee Maes, 45, also known as David Lee Duran, allegedly used a cane with a knife blade concealed at the end to stab a passed-out Ernest Paul Thomas at about 8 a.m. March 4 inside another man's El Llano Road trailer, according to police.
Two witnesses told police that Maes picked up the cane after some knives he was playing with were taken away. Maes appeared to be on drugs, those witnesses said.
Thomas had earlier entered the living room of the trailer and, complaining that he did not feel well because he had been smoking crack cocaine, went to sleep in the chair, according to court documents.
Thomas was in a deep sleep when Maes entered the house. According to the witnesses, Maes pulled apart the cane to reveal the knife blade and began looking at the sleeping Thomas.
"David looked at Ernest and then stabbed him in the stomach area for no apparent reason," the witnesses said, according to the court documents.
One of the witnesses said he immediately asked Maes why he stabbed Thomas.
"Stab who? What!" Maes reportedly replied.
Maes was then thrown out of the house and ran away, the court documents state.
Maes pleaded not guilty in magistrate court March 10 to a single count of aggravated battery. He is being held on a $10,000 cash-only bond.
Thomas was flown to the University of New Mexico Hospital where he is recovering, police said.

An 82-year-old Seattle man whose walking stick was damaged when he struck a younger man who witnesses say had doused him with lighter fluid is getting a replacement cane from the Seattle Police Officers' Guild.

During one of the Kali Sundays at the apartment, I pulled out my cane incidentally when I was really searching for a regular rattan stick to swing with at either of my partner Caleb, and since I never really practiced with my cane much, I thought I'd see what comes up as a response to certain angles of attacks that Caleb feeds me. All clips finished in this mix were all first takes[un-rehearsed]. These videos will just push me to remember more of what I can pull for the next ones.... (more)